Liz’s Morning Devotional: Scripture selected from Upper Room
December 3 2022
Read 1 John 4:7-12
7 Dear friends, let’s love each other, because love is from God, and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God. 8 The person who doesn’t love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how the love of God is revealed to us: God has sent his only Son into the world so that we can live through him. 10 This is love: it is not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son as the sacrifice that deals with our sins. 11 Dear friends if God loved us this way, we also ought to love each other. 12 No one has ever seen God. If we love each other, God remains in us and his love is made perfect in us.
Good Morning, God is love!
This morning as I read I am remembering what some call the “silly love songs”. As Paul McCartney eloquently penned, “What’s wrong with that, I’d like to know.”
If I was asked to sum up God in one word, that word would be love! God loves us unconditionally and by God’s grace, we are saved. When the world was broken beyond all recognition of God’s plan, God sent his son Jesus to teach us so that we might be saved from ourselves.
Advent is a time to remember this gift of God: God’s son in the form of a baby. God loves us despite our failures and our imperfection or perhaps because of these challenges. God loves us!
When we consider this love, we are called to love one another as God loved us. We are called to put aside our differences and live in peace. Tomorrow, we will light the candle of peace. We long for peace: personal peace, family peace, and world peace. God sent a baby to teach us peace.
Let’s commit ourselves to this challenge to let go of everything that is taking up space within our lives so that peace might fill the void that remains. Claim God’s peace today.
“The Lord is Near! Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in every situation with prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God. And the peace that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6 NIV
Gracious God, Thank You for loving us. You personify love! You sent Your Son to save those whom you love! Thank you! In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen
Thought for the day: God always provides what I need most: unconditional love.
What the world needs now is love! Pastor Liz
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